LAW OF THE LAND

Judge dismisses suit against online gun marketplace

'No duty to to operate its website to control private individual users' sale of handguns'

Published: 08/02/2013 at 11:54 PM

(Wall Street Journal) Armslist.com isn’t liable for the brutal murder of an Illinois woman shot to death by a man who used the online firearms marketplace to make an illegal gun purchase, a federal judge ruled this week.

The lawsuit was brought by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on behalf of the brother of Jitka Vesel, a 36-year-old immigrant shot and killed in 2011 by a Russian immigrant living in Canada. Gun-control advocates said the legal challenge was the first of its kind.